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Mystic Mountain is an almost unbelievably glorious nebula – I felt on fire painting it! Painting with transparent oil paints allows layers upon layers that can be looked through to a depth not available with other media.

This craggy almost fantasy mountaintop enshrouded by wispy clouds soars your imagination. The NASA Hubble Space Telescope image, which is even more dramatic than fiction, captures the chaotic activity atop a three-light-year-tall pillar of gas and dust that is being eaten away by the brilliant light from nearby bright stars. The pillar is also being assaulted from within, as infant stars buried inside it fire off jets of gas that can be seen streaming from towering peaks.

This turbulent cosmic pinnacle lies within a tempestuous stellar nursery called the Carina Nebula, located 7,500 light-years away in the southern constellation Carina. The image celebrates the 20th anniversary of Hubble’s launch and deployment into an orbit around Earth. My abstract space paintings were first exhibited in 2011 at Anchorage, Alaska USA. That year I was granted membership of the International Association of Astronomical Artists. Further exhibitions followed with space paintings being collected for private and public collections worldwide.

Mystic Mountain is a focus piece commanding a striking effect in a large room. NASA is bringing Outer Space nearer and nearer and this oil painting brings it into your environment. There is a special element to this work as it is designed to look stunning as is. However, if it has a illumination from the back of the canvas then an amazing element is added.

Materials used:

Specification of Mystic Mountain

Professional oils
Stretched canvas over timber frame
Painted on all sides. Ready to hang
Delivered on Australia only
Delivered rolled canvas elsewhere

Additional Information

Mystic Mountain is an almost unbelievably glorious nebula – I felt on fire painting it! Painting with transparent oil paints allows layers upon layers that can be looked through to a depth not available with other media.

This craggy almost fantasy mountaintop enshrouded by wispy clouds soars your imagination. The NASA Hubble Space Telescope image, which is even more dramatic than fiction, captures the chaotic activity atop a three-light-year-tall pillar of gas and dust that is being eaten away by the brilliant light from nearby bright stars. The pillar is also being assaulted from within, as infant stars buried inside it fire off jets of gas that can be seen streaming from towering peaks.

This turbulent cosmic pinnacle lies within a tempestuous stellar nursery called the Carina Nebula, located 7,500 light-years away in the southern constellation Carina. The image celebrates the 20th anniversary of Hubble’s launch and deployment into an orbit around Earth. My abstract space paintings were first exhibited in 2011 at Anchorage, Alaska USA. That year I was granted membership of the International Association of Astronomical Artists. Further exhibitions followed with space paintings being collected for private and public collections worldwide.

Mystic Mountain is a focus piece commanding a striking effect in a large room. NASA is bringing Outer Space nearer and nearer and this oil painting brings it into your environment. There is a special element to this work as it is designed to look stunning as is. However, if it has a illumination from the back of the canvas then an amazing element is added.

Materials used:

Specification of Mystic Mountain

Professional oils
Stretched canvas over timber frame
Painted on all sides. Ready to hang
Delivered on Australia only
Delivered rolled canvas elsewhere